Standing in the truth of who I am. Trusting that I am enough. Letting go of the outcome. This is what I am thinking about as I contemplate having a difficult conversation with someone I care about. I have the urge to avoid it. Just smooth things over and go along. And what I realize, yet again, is that...
Only Human (June 26, 2010)
We all want connection (June 19, 2010)
We all want connection - to our family and friends and colleagues and partners... to our work, our community, to nature, to the larger world. And all that connection begins with the core connection, the one that is the foundation for personal growth: connecting into ourselves in the body in the moment...
The Centre of Attention (June 12, 2010)
Are you ever the centre of your attentIon? I know I know - we don't want to be selfish and we don't want to be seen as self absorbed... but still... What if you were allowed to be the focus of your full attention? Just for a few moments. Once a day perhaps. What if you could let yourself tune in to the...
Growing from the ground (June 5, 2010)
Tendrils tumbling like morning glory, escaping the cramped confines of the hairclip atop my head. Bare toes wiggling like earthworms in neon orange crocs, itching to feel the crumbly soft soil. Branches of happiness growing up and out of my chest, blossoming in a smile that lights my eyes. A deep exhale...
Approach Your Pain (May 29, 2010)
I have an ear infection and it hurts. The lip of my ear near my TM joint is swollen and I feel it every time I open my mouth. It itches. It has distorted my hearing out of that ear and I feel off-balance. I think I am talking funny - sometimes louder and sometimes quieter. It makes everything I eat and...
Listen for your call (May 15, 2010)
Dissonance is a feeling of anxiety in the body that is your unique and personal call to growth. It is a message of your human vulnerability, speaking the difficult truth of limits to personal control over outcomes that matter to you. There is an urge is to move away from ourselves when we feel dissonance...
Happy Mother's Day to You (May 8, 2010)
The eyes of a healthy, mature loving mother speak volumes. They say "you are safe". They say "you matter". They say "you are enough just breathing". Held in that gaze you know in the very cells of your body that there is room for all of who you are; no part of you needs...
The Courage to Want (May 1, 2010)
Desire. Wanting. Longing. What do you want? Truly madly deeply want.... More joy? Deeper connection with others? Meaningful work? To live your most authentic life? Better coping with life's challenges? An ease inside your own skin? Down deep inside can you feel it - the feeling of your longing? It is...
Blossoming (April 24, 2010)
Forgive me - I am slipping away to go skiing this weekend (I still can't believe I am saying that!) and I haven't left myself time to write much. Instead I am leaving you with these beautiful photos of blossoming spring. Tender tulips reaching for the light, surprising even themselves. Inviting us to...
Just a minute! (April 17, 2010)
Being in the body is the foundation stone of all the things I talk about... Especially when we are experiencing vulnera bility. Each one of us is vulnerable. We are not ultimately one hundred percent in control of the outcomes that matter to us, And our ability to stay with ourselves in that truth forms...